Propane overfill by a "professional"
Looks like I'll be shopping for a new local propane guy. Which I should have already done, but there's only one last straw. I took one of my 30# cylinders down to fill from dead empty. This genius ...
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westend wrote:
The fill valve is built to allow the displaced air to exit the tank slowly. The over-pressure relief valve opens instantaneously and it is not slow. When they open there is a release of liquid propane and is it not a small release.
One question westland.. You say "The fill valve is built to allow the displaced air..
HOW DID THE AIR GET IN THE TANK?
During the initial fill the tank is purged, all air is exhausted into a storage tank from which the propane that gets out with it is recovered later.. There is no air in the tank to displace it is all propane.
The valve you are speaking of is the liquid overfill indicator valve (long form) when it starts shooting WHITE, meaning frost by the way (condensed and frozen water vapor from the air around it on the OUTSIDE of the tank) the tank is full.
THIS is the proper way to fill a tank, not weight, not till the valve closes, but till the spitter spits.
